The Disturbing Scandals of Prince Jefri of Brunei

0:17 In the elite world of wealth, few people off any are richer than the Prince of Brunei. Prince Jeffrey of Bernei, brother to the Sultan, has a net worth that some estimate in the trillions. In the spending habits to match. In a lawsuit filed by two of Prince Jeffrey's former lawyers, those habits were exposed five hundred ferraris thirteen hundred bedroom estates in hiring a list stars for scandalous acts. Welcome to Exposed Scandalous Files of the Elite. Prince Jeffrey of Brunei. Hey everyone, and welcome back to Exposed Scandalous Files of the Elite. I'm Jim Chapman, your host, and first I want to thank everyone for joining me today for this episode, sharing the content. It helps us grow. Please rate us on whatever platform you're listening on right now.

1:41 We sure appreciate that. I was listening to the Joe Rogan Experience and he had Andrew Schultz on his show, and they were talking about a story regarding the Prince of Brunei. It's Jeffrey, and it was so intriguing. I started doing a ton of research. As soon as I listened to that episode and I wanted to bring y'all kind of the full story on this. It's just really bizarre, and this guy was one of the richest, if not the richest people in the entire world. And there's something before I get into this episode that I want to make you aware of, and that is a lot of the Middle Eastern princes and kings and all these sorts of things, sultans, they are a lot richer than what they tell people. They don't have to report income like here in the States. Of course, we're obligated to report our income. They report what they want to report. But estimates say that a lot of these Middle Eastern princes and kings and things like that are worth trillions with the tea rellions, they just don't claim it. And this would be a good example of that. So in order to tell you this story, I need to give you a little bit of history regarding Brunei.

3:12 So way back in the day, on the corner of a large island called Borneo, there was a tiny nation and it's about the size of Delaware. It was called Brunei. Now, for six hundred years, royals had literally married their cousins. It was a small nation. Everybody was kind of related to everybody, and for six hundred years, that's what they did. True story, So Brunei pretty much went through history unnoticed for that six hundred years. Now, that was until nineteen twenty six when oil was discovered there. That's right, black gold Texas tea as we say here in the United States. So the nation started to prosper, and by nineteen eighty they gained independence from Great Britain. So Great Britain pretty much ruled over them at that time. But in nineteen eighty four they had prospered to the point that they were able to gain their independence from Great Britain. And the sultan at that time, who he was, the twenty ninth Sultan, he was gaining tons of popularity and money, I mean tons of money. The sultan at that time, as a matter of fact, was the richest man in the world in nineteen eighty seven, and that was just what he claimed, the richest man in the world due to the oil underneath the ground in Burnei, and

4:45 his worth was listed at forty billion dollars in nineteen eighty seven. To tell you how much money that is, y'all today, that will be worth an estimated one hundred and fifteen billion dollars, but as I just told you, that's reported income, most experts speculate it was closer to a trillion dollars. Now. The Sultan at that time was forty one, and he was pretty wild and not afraid to flow on his wealth. He purchased department stores, he financed arms dealers, He had seventeen private jets, He boasted thousands of luxury cars, and he even purchased a painting for over seventy million dollars.

5:39 Seventy million dollars for a painting. You know you got some money when you do that. Now. As much as the Sultan loved money, he also loved his younger brother, Prince Jeffrey, and they were a dynamic duo when it came to spending money in excess and all those sorts of things. Jeffrey owned a fleet of yachts, and they had some interesting names. To see. The least one of his yacht's name was tits. You can't make that up. A two hundred million dollar yacht with its tenders on that yacht named Nipple one and Nipple two. I got to give the guy credit for being creative to say the least. But get this, Prince Jeffrey owned five hundred plus ferraris. He even had a planeload of polo ponies imported in an entire planeload. Y'all. These are million dollar horses each. He and a collection of five star hotels, including some you've probably heard of. The Beverly Hills Hotel. He owned that, the Hotel bel Air he owned that. He even owned the world renowned jewelry manufacturing company called Asbury. He purchased that for three hundred and eighty five million dollars cash. How much money these guys had.

7:12 Now Back at home, the Sultan and Prince Jeffrey, they loved in a seventeen hundred and eighty eight room palace on forty nine acres. And on his fiftieth birthday, Jeffrey decided he wanted to have a little concert so much like we would do. You know, he hires a music artist to come in and perform that. But his music artist he hired was Michael Jackson. He paid seventeen million dollars and even built a stadium just for that specific concert. And you know, you got some stupid money when you're doing that. On another occasion, Whitney Houston was flown in and at the end of the concert she was given a blank check from Prince Jeffrey, and he told her just to fill out what she thinks she was worth. So Winny Houston writes a check to herself in the amount of seven million dollars. The brothers would travel in one hundred member entourages to visit clothing stores all over the world and buy one hundred suits at the same time of the same color. You want a gray suit, Let's get a hundred of them. Stupid money. They were Muslims, but they indulged in a lot of things outside of the Muslim religion. Islamic law allowed them to have four wives, but they were known to step outside of even the four wives and have harems the likes of which

8:48 the world had never seen. Now. Throughout all of this, there was a third brother that I haven't mentioned yet. His name was Prince Muhammed, and he, unlike his other two brothers, he was a strict Muslim who had a disdain not only for the indulgence of the Sultan and Prince Jeffrey, but also the favoritism shown to Prince Jeffrey by the Sultan. So Prince Muhammad he only had one wife, and believe it or not, he flew commercial. He didn't have his own private yet and was waiting for the chance to stop the party. He was watching all this and just waiting for his opportunity, and in nineteen ninety seven he found it. A former Miss Usa, Miss Usa y'all named Shannon Marketek sued Jeffrey and the Sultan for ten million dollars.

9:45 You thought she would have sued from more than that. That's like five bucks to them, but she sues them for ten million dollars. And she claimed that herself and six other women had been hired for one hundred and twenty seven thousand dollars each to rival to Bernai for what they thought were professional appearances promotional stuff right. However, she claims they were forced to be sex slaves. She said her passport was seized and she was made to take an STD test and then had to join other women for all night parties and all that you may imagine were involved in that. She stated that whenever the Prince and his posse were on the way to the dance club, an actual disco ball would drop from the ceiling and that disco ball would signal them to start dancing and start lighting up and turning just like you would picture in your mind.

10:43 And Jeffrey and his friends would then invite their favorites for tea, which was his code for sex, and he used a lot of like code. We'll get into that a little bit. One of Prince Jeffrey's aides told the former Miss USA that it would be the biggest honor of her life to sleep with Jeffrey because he was half man and half god. Wow. A woman by the name of Jillian Lauren, she actually wrote a book about being in Prince Jeffrey's harem and said the sex with the Prince was quick, impersonal, and unprotected. She said after her first encounter with the Prince, he quote slapped her on the ass and bolted out of the bed, and he insisted she call him Robin, which was the name he insisted all his lovers call him.

11:43 Another kind of code thing. She said, he would buy his girls he slept with a Maserati. He would give them one hundred thousand dollars bonus boxes of jewelry and even paid for plastic surgeries, including boob jobs. From time to time. He would also pass them along to his brother, the Sultan. Jeffrey denied the allegations in Shannon Marketic's lawsuit and they were dismissed due to lack of evidence, but the media backlash was very damaging, and American girls actually were no longer invited to Bereni because of the scandal. Then in nineteen ninety eight, a lawsuit was filed by Bob and Rathy Manorkin. They were Armenian brothers who Jeffrey befriended in nineteen eighty one after buying suits from them.

12:35 They were his suit supplier. The Minorcans went on to sell the prince much more than suits. They sold him jewelry. They sold him cars, planes, boats, and real estate. They were kind of brokering deals for him. When Jeffrey renegged on a one hundred and thirty million dollar property deal, the Minorcan sued Jeffrey countersuit. He charged the brothers had breached the fiduciary duty by marking up the goods they sold him by anywhere from one hundred to six hundred percent. Jeffrey didn't testify at the trial, but his lawyers presented the Prince as a sucker too out of touch to notice the markups because the Minorcans had posed as close friends. In court, the Minorcans described Jeffrey's sex parties at home and abroad, saying that there were over seven hundred and forty seven young, mostly young women, that they kept track of. The attorney called him a man of unlimited taste and one man walking market who bought practically everything he saw, including a rug woven with jewels and threads of solid gold for seven million dollars. Who doesn't need a rug like that? Ten jewel encrusted watches that depicted on the hour a couple having sex for eight million dollars

14:07 yep, a risk watch that shows a couple having sex on the hour every hour, and erotic fountain pens for one point three million dollars. I have no idea what erotic fountain pins are, but for one point three million dollars they better be good. In London alone, the Minorcans charge he kept forty prostitutes at a hotel and spent thirty four million dollars for the former Playboy club there, which was more than four times the market price, so that he could house more hookers and secretly indulge in his passion for gambling, and of course Jeffrey denied employing prostitutes. Now remember that other brother I was talking about, Mohammed. Well, Mohammad finally convinces the Saltan and Jeffrey was going to take him down, and that launches an investigation by the Sultan and he dispatches two hundred forensic accountants, two hundred to examine the books and records of Prince Jeffrey and y'all. Forensic accounting by itself is expensive with like one company do it. He had two hundred separate forensic accountants. That's crazy. The Sultan discovered that during Jeffrey's fifteen years as the head of one of Brunei's government entities that was basically over the finance for Brunei, forty billion in special transfers had

15:43 been drawn from its account. Fourteen point eight billion had been paid or used by Jeffrey himself, eight billion had gone to the Sultan. Get this, thirteen point five billion remained unaccounted for. Jeffrey claimed that the Sultan had authorized all the withdrawals, and he said it was inconceivable that forty billion dollars could have been withdrawn without anyone noticing it over the previous fifteen years. The Sultan denied that encounter that Jeffrey had embezzled the money. Look, you're not talking about embezzling, you know, even a million dollars, You're talking forty billion.

16:25 Armed troops eventually searched Jeffrey's palace and he was ordered to turn over his passport until he signed a settlement agreement in which he promised to return assets including over six hundred properties, two thousand cars and over one hundred paintings, five boats, nine aircraft, and billions of dollars in possessions he had stored in twenty one warehouses. And after swearing to comply fully with the agreement, what do you think Jeffery did? He left the country and jeffrey spending continued unabated after leaving Brunei, and he shot back at the sultans, saying that they had an unwritten pack and it was supposed to be kept secret that the Sultan allowed him to support himself by retaining six properties as lifestyle assets, including the New York Palace hotel, the Hotel bel Air, two residences in London and a home in Paris, and even a trust fund maintained by Citibank. So they got into this feud, and the Sultan's trying to get this money back and Jeffrey he's not budgeting, and it actually became the world's most expensive legal battle and history. The Sultans spent get this and estimated four hundred million dollars just to track down Jeffrey's wealth. Much of it was squirrel to weigh and

18:00 bank accounts and shell companies in you know areas of the world that are tax havens, so you can't even figure out how much money's in there. In two thousand, the Sultan froze Jeffrey's assets through injunctions, but it had little effect. He had sold off untraceable hordes of arts, cars and jewels, and he would just keep the cash and you couldn't trace it. So I told you about what really got me on this story with Prince Jeffrey, and that was a conversation that Joe Rogan and Andrew Schultz had about him. This is just about a month ago, uh, and I wanted you to hear that short conversation. So here's what that sounded like. On the Joe Rogan experience, like you know the saltan Obernin's deal. What is that? Oh, my god, Sultan aber nine, he would he had his own nightclub.

18:53 Maybe he still does, Okay, So he had his own night He has like five hundred ferraris. Like these guys have insane amounts of money because it's not it's not public, right, so they don't have to be like the world's riches exactly, but they're richer than everybody. They have trillions. And so he had his own nightclub. And so what he would do is he would pay actresses. He would find these girls, get me her, and he would get these gals and give them exorbitant amounts of money to come. And then he would have a nightclub where it was only him and he would go down there and it's filled with gorgeous women. And he would go down there and just go, you come with me, and then they'd go fucking party. And they were making a lot of money. And one of them was writing a book and so she had a laptop and she was like documenting. They confiscated her laptop and then she went back to America that she spilled the beans and she rated out all the other girls that were doing it and kind of fucked up the whole thing because like a list people were getting shit tons of money this thing to go over there, Yeah, I would say a list, but people that you know, Yeah, there's like people you know of and if you go there, you get millions of dollars, like this lady had gotten millions of dollars in jewelry from him. There's a service that apparently that where like yeah, apparently, right, but likely billionaires can fuck like sports illustrated models and shit and like Victoria's Secret Chicks chicks that we've seen, and it's cost a lot of money, and they do it because it's like, hey, it's easier than you know, going to do

20:26 these shoots, the easiest. They don't want to tell anybody that they did it. They don't. And also they're getting a fuck billionais. They're not fucking some random crackhead, right, They're gonna already fuck the billionaire, so it might as well make some fucking money doing it. And it exists now, and you know about this allegedly allegedly I may know people who have partaken. So it's like and this exists bang like cover of Maxim I don't know the cover, I don't know what's going on. Just some hot ladies that you're aware of. But they're not just hot chicks that come from Russia. Right, We're talking about famous people that you would never think would even need to do that, right, Just these are like the ecosystems that exist out there. Well, it makes sense if you're worth two hundred billion dollars and you give someone a million dollars to fuck you, that is nothing. You make that in five minutes, I spend okay. In two thousand and one, Jeffrey was forced to auction off his personal possessions after using the country as a piggy bank, spending an average of seven hundred and forty seven thousand dollars a day for ten years, on top of the seventeen billion in gifts to friends and family. The Sultanese true vulgarity was exposed. His brother also treats the company as in the country as an atm, and it remains a crime in Brunei for anyone to ever discuss how the royals spend their money. When you don't work for your money, how can you value it? Like if it just comes right out the grounds, like how do you really think is spending How much was he spending a day? So he lives in a palace with one thousand and seven hundred and eighty eight rooms, two hundred and fifty

21:57 seven bathrooms, five swimming pool, was a mosque, a banquet hall that holds five thousand people, and a one hundred and ten car garage. When he turned fifty, the sultan built a stadium, invited invited Michael Jackson to perform in it, and paid him seventeen million dollars for three concerts. Jeffrey fifty nine maintains a separate pleasure palace and once owned a one hundred and fifty foot yacht called the Tits, called the Tits nice. He named his fenders Nipple one and Nipple two. And you can never understand why others found that juvenile and crass. Here and abroad, the brothers are infamous for their sex parties and their harems composed mainly of underage girls. That's crazy, Wow, wild bro. That amount of money that he's spending, that is so crazy.

22:45 Three billion dollars plus. But that doesn't that site said it didn't include the seventeen billion dollars that he was giving out to people. Wow, you mentioned the Michael Jackson thing for his birthday. Yeah, ok, that is ball and Sony. These these fucking things exist all over the place, crazy and it's the easiest money that these girls would ever make crazy. Yeah, yeah, well, and it's so much. If you've got that much money, it doesn't mean anything. It doesn't mean anything. And the money's coming every day. It's just stacking up. Giving someone a million dollars to fuck, and the girl's probably wait, a million dollars regular sex. You're not gonna show me. He's not gonna give you the Cincinnati top hat. Whatever the fuck. Now. Eventually the prince paid out a ton of lawsuits, and for all intents and purposes, even though he had to pay a bunch of lawsuits out and he was a total sex for eak, he's still crazy rich today and he's now sixty nine years old. Y'all. You cannot make that story up. So if you ever wanted what it's like to be the richest man in the world and have money that you really could care less what anything costs, there you go. That's what you do with it when you are Prince Jeffrey, And that is his story. Now with that, I got a little something extra for you today, or lang yap as we call

24:18 it here in South Louisiana. So I've received a lot of messages through the Facebook. And incidentally, go follow the Facebook page if you're not following it already, just search exposed scandalous files of the Elite on Facebook. It'll pull it up and you can stay updated with everything we're doing. You can send me messages to suggest scandals of the elite. Now it's got to be you know, this is different than a typical true crime podcast and that we focus on society and people that would be considered elite in society. It doesn't mean they have to be filthy rich. I've done one on a police officer before, so if they're elite in the manner of trust, a teacher, something like that, we may do something on them. But we like to keep it to topics that you would know no matter who you are anywhere in the world. You know you would know who these people were, So feel free to send me a message. But I got something a little treat for you today. I've gotten a lot of messages about lawsuits of famous brands that were what people would consider ridiculous frivolous lawsuits a big thing here in the United States, and there's a lot of big companies that have kind of been or fell victim to that, some really bizarre lawsuits. So I'm gonna give you a few of them. Just quickly shout out to Sarah Renneger who messaged me and

25:55 asked me if I would cover any of those, And I'm gonna cover a few of them for you here. They're really short, but they're really interesting. The first, how about Starbucks. Everybody's heard of Starbucks. A Chicago woman by the name of Stacy Pinkus. She filed a five million dollar class action lawsuit against Starbucks in April of twenty sixteen, and she claimed the company put too much ice in its cold drinks. The law city qus Starbucks of advertising ice drinks as twenty four ounce beverages when the cup contained only fourteen ounces of fluid. YEP. The result of that lawsuit, and it was named the most frivolous lawsuit in twenty sixteen by the US Chamber of Commerce Institute for Legal Reform, was dismissed, as you would imagine, by a federal judge in late of twenty sixteen, so she did not get her five million dollars.

26:51 How about the Hershey Company. God by the name of Robert Brighton of Missouri filed a lawsuit and he claimed the Hershey Company in tenally sells partially filled packages of Whoppers, Reese's Pieces, and other products. In May of twenty seventeen, his five million dollar lawsuit was given the green light to move forward, believe it or not, and in twenty eighteen, his case was thrown out by a district judge concluding that Brighton wasn't really harm because even though he realized the packages of Reese's Pieces and Whoppers weren't full, he continued to buy them, and bye he did. Over the course of a decade. It was discovered and I don't know how they figured this out, but it was discovered he bought over six hundred packages of Whoppers and Reese's Pieces. Dude's got a sweet teeth. How about Subway? In twenty thirteen, a group of subway customers filed a class action lawsuit against the chain, claiming its foot long subs didn't always measure up to twelve in Before the lawsuit was consolidated, some planets were seeking up to five million from the sandwich chain. And I don't know what's up with US five million dollars, but that seems to be the magic number. US District Judge Lynn Audeman called the case quite weak, and Subway was cleared of deceptive marketing practices, but agreed to make sure subs were

28:22 proper sized in the future. How about Beck's Beer. In twenty thirteen, several beer drinkers of Beck's beer filed a class action lawsuit against Anheuser Bush, seeking upwards of five million. There's at five million again. They claimed deceptive packaging caused them to believe the beverage was manufactured in Germany. Production was actually moved to Saint Louis in twenty twelve for that beer, which originated in Germany, but there was nothing that said made in the USA on the label, so they sued. But here's a surprise for you. The court actually ruled in the plainiff's favor, and a magistrate judge approved a settlement for customers who purchased Beck Pilsner Beck Dark Becklight in Octoberfest beer from two thousand and eleven to June of twenty fifteen, and those with receipts so if you keep your beer receipts, you were in luck. They were able to file acclaim for up to fifty dollars per household or up to twelve dollars without a receipt. Now that was a tricky part for me. So what did you just have to say you bought it and you get twelve bucks? I guess. So how about Fear Factor? Remember that show on NBC hosted by Joe Rogan. Incidentally a viewer by the name of Austin Aiken. He sued NBC for two point

29:53 five million dollars in two thousand and five because a segment where contestants ate rats, mixed and a blender caused him to vomit and run into a doorway. He felt the stunt went too far, but was unable to turn off the television fast enough to avoid the stunt. However, the outcome was not what ache and had hoped for. His frivolous lawsuit was dismissed and the judge warned him against filing an appeal. You gotta laugh at that. How about Anheuser Bush again? So a guy named Richard Overton sued Anheuser Bush in nineteen ninety one for ten thousand dollars, claiming that its advertisements were untrue and misleading.

30:45 He studied the bud Lights TV commercials led consumers to buy products that were dangerous and could lead to addiction or death. According to the lawsuit, he pointed to television advertisements featuring bud Light as the source of antesies coming to life, tropical settings, beautiful women and men engaged in unrestricted merriment, and as it turned out, drinking beer does not automatically mean that you'll be transported to a tropical island and inhabited by beautiful people. He sawt monetary damage because he believed the advertisements caused him physical, mental injury, and emotional distress, as well as financial loss. So what do you think the court did in this case?

31:30 Well, they not only dismissed the case, he had to pay some money for causing the court so much trouble in the amount of twenty seven hundred dollars. Universal Studios, let's talk about them. People attend Universal citios annual Halloween hor Nights to enjoy fund and frights. But one grandma she got more than she bargained for. She sued Universal Studios in nineteen ninety eight for emotional and physical distress and damage stemming from a visit to one of the Haunted House attractions. At the end of a Haunted House, the grandmother was visiting with her grandchild. A man wielding a chainsaw frightened them, so they hurried for the exit door. Unfortunately, there was a puddle outside that door that caused her to slip and fall, and she sued Universal for fifteen thousand for physical injuries. Actually, she may have a little bit of case with that.

32:25 I mean, this is a grandmother. If she's legitimately hurt and they were not cautious with all that outside, she's got a case there. And actually the Universal Studios must have thought that as well, because they settled with her out of court. How about Home Depot. In a recent court case, a group of Chicago planets filed a class action lawsuit against Home Depot because the stores four by four lumber actually measured out to three and a half by three and a half inches on each side. Home Depot and other lumber suppliers have explained that four by four is just the name of the boards, its industry standard dimensions, that they are actually three and a half by three and a half inches. Nevertheless, they wanted more than five million dollars in damages, and a district judge, well, he didn't agree with them either. He sided with Home Depot and dismissed the case. McDonald's. A California resident, Webster Lucas sued the company for one point five million in twenty fourteen. You ready for this? Get ready? Because he only received one napkin with his meal after a potentially racially charged argument with the manager. He was offered free burgers, but he claimed the incident left him emotionally distressed and unable to work.

33:45 Come on, y'all, Lucas is no stranger to taking on fast food corporations. Prior to following the lawsuit with McDonald's, he had filed one against Jack in the Box twice and he didn't get anything in those cases. And of course he did not get anything in the McDonald's case. But you wonder why insurance, You know, insurance prices are so high for car insurance and liability insurance if you're a business. Well, there's some good examples why. I mean, some of the most of all of these, pretty much with the exception of one that I've covered, are absolutely frivolous and ridiculous, and I'm gonna give you one more. And this is Google nowadays, It's hard to imagine getting around without Google Maps, right. But one woman she might have taken the apps directions a little bit too literally. Lauren Rosenberg. She sued Google in twenty eleven after the Search Engines map tool instructed her to walk across the rural Highway now instead of taking a safer route and allowing Google to recalculate, Rosen followed exactly what Google suggested. She walked across the high way into oncoming traffic and ended up getting hit by a car. She was seriously injured and sued both Google for negligence, fade to warn and defective design, and she sees the driver of the car that hit her. Google asked a

35:15 district court in Salt Lake City to dismiss the claim, and the district judge granted Google's request of dismissal, finding that they were not at fault and that common sense should have played a part in her decision to walk right in front of oncoming traffic. So there you have it. I wanted to give those to you. Thank you to that listener that sent me that request and I'll try to fill these from time to time for you when I do shorter scandalss spiles of the elites, and if I can fit them in under you know where we remain around that forty five minute to an hour time mark, I will do so. Thank you so much for listening to expose scandalous files of the elite, and until next time, I'm Jim Chapman. Much love,